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First you wouldn’t want to port this to Win10 IOT instead you would want to start from scratch. I’ve seen the python code and support files, it won’t port well to what is currently available on Win10 IOT.
As for the dev environment you can get Win10 Desktop Preview for free and run it locally in a VM. Then you can also get the community preview of Visual Studio 2015 for free as well and install it inside this VM. There are a few other tools to download too but once finished you can build and deploy to the RPI2 albeit somewhat of a kludge at the moment. I’ve done a few apps already and found it to be very unstable so far not to mention very temper mental to even get an app running on it. It appears to use a trusted computing model requiring certificates to sign code, not fun and annoying as all get out when you just want to toss hello world out there and see it on the screen.
So far mice are all over the place, some work some don’t, no wifi adapters appear to work (I have a ton), no bluetooth and I’m pretty sure it’s only using one core based off the performance I see with some of my simple apps. Check back next year on RPI2 Win10 IOT. 😉
Thank you the replacement appears to be working as expected. Do you want me to return the other one?
I’ve been probing all over the 1.0 board and the voltages are the same across the different components and I’m getting more confident this was just a fluke. Can you give me the details on d3 I might have one in my spare parts to try and swap it out and see if that fixes it. If not I don’t have a problem grabbing the power supply form home depot for 15 bucks to be safe with a new one.
Got the replacement and unboxed it today mounted it and was doing the test before connecting it to the pie. When I flipped the switch the LED came on for a brief second and went out. I tried checking voltages got .2V from gnd to the 5V on the board and the no load voltage of the transformer is 25.8V when I turned it on last there was a visible arch around D3 and the LED hasn’t come on since. I tried measuring between pin 3 and 1 on the LM2596 and expected to see 25V instead it read 75V. I quickly powered it off and went to the power supply thinking maybe it was messed up. I check the voltage at the adapter and it read 25.8V. I powered it on and it dropped to 25.6V so nothing odd here. Any suggestions on things I can do?
I actually figured it out late last night. According to the man page it doesn’t really make sense the -s is supposed to sync the system clock form the hwclock but the following is form my terminal session and it solved the invalid argument. I really just ran these out of desperation as I had already been poking around reading the NVRAM on the ds1307 and knew it was at least communicating with the device.
hwclock: ioctl(RTC_RD_TIME) to /dev/rtc0 to read the time failed: Invalid argument
#hwclock -w
hwclock: ioctl(RTC_RD_TIME) to /dev/rtc0 to read the time failed: Invalid argument
#hwclock -s
#hwclock -r
Sat 22 Mar 2013 11:34:45 PM CDT -0.925138 seconds
#cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/time
4:34:49
Without seeing your setup it’s hard to tell you if what you were told is a load of carp or not.
If you move to a setup like this generally you remove the current irrigation controller entirely and replace it with this system. The wires for your zones that went to the current controller would instead go to the OpenSprinkler controller. This gives you control over each zone/solenoid individually. That said you could have some whacky controller but I doubt it. The real things to worry about is does your system use solenoids to control the water flow, and are these solenoids powered by 24vac. If yes to both of these question then you are good to go.
